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With the mainstream adoption of ChatGPT and LLMs, 3terra reviews the current clinical NLP landscape, practical barriers to AI-powered medical coding, and how hospitals can prepare for the AI-driven future.

Small community hospitals face unique challenges accessing timely, actionable data. The 3terra DQA platform provides professional decision support tools — dashboards, self-serve reporting, and data quality checks — accessible to hospitals of any size.

3terra has integrated Microsoft's Cognitive Services NLP into its platform, enabling world-class medical AI for all clients. This brings immediate implications for medical coding, hospital data analytics, and research practices.

Machine learning can be applied to hospital operational Decision Support problems without an advanced math degree. This article illustrates practical ML applications in healthcare analytics, including finding missing diagnostic imaging records.

A comprehensive guide covering six high-level areas for successful Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) software initiatives in Ontario hospitals, drawn from working with over 40 hospitals.

Hospitals face increasing problems with custom-developed software, from small data management apps to large data warehouses. This article explores the root causes, symptoms, and practical solutions for managing technical debt in Healthcare IT.

Physician documentation quality directly impacts hospital funding in Ontario. This article explores the MRDx paradox, physician education strategies, and what Ontario hospitals can learn from performance-based funding models in the United States.

3terra analyzed the effect of poor data quality on outpatient ED cases. Missing diagnostic procedures in coded abstracts can significantly impact hospital funding, and cross-referencing NACRS records against diagnostic systems reveals substantial gaps.

3terra's hospital harm module helps hospitals identify and reduce preventable harm using coded inpatient data. Approximately 1 in every 18 hospital stays in Canada involve at least one occurrence of preventable harm.